• Taxpayers federation to deliver petitions to Prime Minister's office today
• Today's vote only the latest skirmish in a larger battle
• Latest plan for taxpayers to subsidize industry losses smacks of more corporate welfare
• Gun registry boondoggle foreshadows Kyoto future

OTTAWA: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) will hand deliver more than 25,000 petitions (collected in less than three months) to the Prime Minister's office this afternoon at 2:15 pm, 45 minutes before the scheduled commencement of the historic vote in Parliament on ratification of the Kyoto protocol.

The Kyoto battle continues
"While the result of today's Commons vote is a foregone conclusion, it is merely a small setback in a larger battle," stated CTF federal director Walter Robinson. "Kyoto is bad public policy, period. The government is arrogantly ramming through today's vote while the science behind climate change is still open to debate, the provinces are not on board, and worst of all, the ultimate effects on Canadian consumers and taxpayers are still unknown."

Latest wrinkle = more corporate welfare
"With word from Ottawa yesterday that potential industry losses will be capped and taxpayers will foot the bill for the difference, this latest sop to industry is just more corporate welfare on the backs of hard working Canadians," added Robinson. "Who knows what new twist and cost will borne by taxpayers tomorrow Our study pointing to a $2,700 hit per Canadian family by 2010 may be a very conservative estimate of the ultimate financial hardship that taxpayers will suffer."

Firearms registry fiasco foreshadows future
"Given the cost overruns in the gun registry as identified by the Auditor General, it is self-evident that the federal government's estimates of job losses and economic impacts of Kyoto are a joke," concluded Robinson. "It is a sad day for Canada when Liberal MPs and Paul Martin - leading Liberal leadership contender - to boot will follow the Prime Minister like lemmings to the cliff and sacrifice the future of the Canadian economy out of blind partisan allegiance."

By: Walter Robinson
Posted: December 10, 2002
Topic: Federal

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Type: News Releases

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